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Counseling for Reproductive Health & Healing
A mind-body approach to wellness incorporating counseling, education, hypnosis, visualization and the creation of rituals. This model of counseling provides women and their partners an opportunity to explore and work with the myriad issues and emotions that commonly emerge during:
Personalized relaxation tapes, a unique component of this work, are available and can be made during sessions.
Please contact me today to see how I can best help you.
Debbie’s approach to women is exquisitely sensitive, thoughtful and caring. Her understanding of the prenatal journey and its special meaning in a woman’s life and development gives her a deep capacity for making a difference.
Gayle Peterson, MSSW, Ph.D.
Author, An Easier Childbirth and Making Healthy Families
Developer of the Preventive Prenatal Education and Counseling Program
| PRECONCEPTION |
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Explore ambivalence, fears and anxieties about pregnancy, birth or parenting. |
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Heal from prior pregnancy or birth losses |
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Resolve previous abortion experiences |
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Examine healthcare options |
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| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH |
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Clarify and validate your vision of birth |
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Overcome fears and anxieties; reduce stresses |
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Work with your birth partner on issues of labor support, coping strategies and communication |
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Use body-centered hypnosis for relaxation, increased body awareness and confidence |
Of special interest to women with:
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Previous difficult birth experience |
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Previous pregnancy or birth loss |
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Desire for a vaginal birth after a cesarean |
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Pregnancy subsequent to infertility |
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History of sexual or physical abuse, phobias or panic |
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"The visualization process made me feel like I was more than halfway there by the time I got to the birth which was a VBAC."
- Mother who has birthed twice
"Childbirth classes gave me some baseline information. But the meditation tape with visualizations and affirmations is what really made me feel ready for labor and birth."
- First-time mom
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| POSTPARTUM |
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Review your birth experience |
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Receive support and guidance in your adjustment to parenthood |
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Evaluation, treatment and support for postpartum blues, depression and anxiety; particularly beneficial for women with any of the following:
- History of prenatal/postpartum depression or anxiety
- Difficult pregnancy
- Traumatic birth experience
- History of infertility
- Conflict with a partner
- Lack of support
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"After a significant postpartum depression with my first child, I was very anxious about the thought of having another child. But with Debbie's support and encouragement and her ability to connect me to a variety support systems, my second postpartum experience was fantastic, thoroughly enjoyable."
- Mother who has birthed twice
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| PREGNANCY & BIRTH LOSS |
| Childbearing loss, whether through miscarriage, termination, stillbirth or neonatal death, is a profound experience for a woman and her family.
Short-term counseling can:
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Facilitate the grieving process |
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Promote healing though the creation of rituals |
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Help you move forward after loss |
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After my baby daughter died, my emotions and my ability to cope were all over the place. Debbie reassured me that my feelings were normal and she gave me specific suggestions for coping that I found immensely helpful."
- Mother who has birthed three times |
| INFERTILITY |
| The struggle to conceive brings with it a multitude of challenges and losses for a woman and her family.
Counseling can help you:
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Reduce stress |
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Reclaim your body |
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Explore options for infertility treatment |
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Consider alternative paths to parenting |
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| SIBLING PREPARATION |
An opportunity for children and their families to prepare for the arrival of a new baby and celebrate the birth process
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Learn about fetal development and birth through photographs, models, video and discussion |
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Create rituals to acknowledge the family change that is about to occur |
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To read my recent article on this topic please click here. |
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All Information Provided in this form is confidential.
For more information on the federal privacy rules (HIPPA) and for details about the policies of my practice, please click here. |
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